SQL Server 2014 Express Docker Image

We are excited to announce the public availability of the sql server 2014 express Docker image for Windows Server Core based Containers! The public repo is hosted on Docker Hub and contains the latest docker image as well as pointers to the Dockerfile and the start PS script(hosted on Github). We hope you will find this image useful and leverage it for your container based applications!

Containerization is a huge part of modern administrative world and it’s good to see Microsoft (belatedly) jumping onto the bandwagon.

Jess Pomfret shows how easy it is to migrate databases from one SQL Server instance to another using dbatools: Now that there are no connections we can move the database. Depending on the situation it might be worth setting the database to read only or single user mode first. In my case, I had the […]